Approach of 1 May brings unprecedented scale of expulsion of workers across Iran

While the Iranian opposition has called for presence of workers and students on the 1 May march, expulsion of workers from factories and state and private companies has been escalating in the past month

Source : NCRI

In Tehran, some 400 workers were expelled from Sasan Soft Drink Company without giving any reasons and bonus. Tehran’s Metro Company expelled 50 workers with at least five years of experience. Iran Khodro Car Company expelled 40 of its cooks with two years experience and Titan Company, producer of monitors, expelled 30 workers with five years experience. Pardisan Housing Complex affiliated to Larijani (Speaker of mullahs’ parliament) family expelled 20 and Sang Karan Company expelled 40 with 10 years experience.
In Khoramshahr, Khoram-Noush Soft Drink Company, one of the major soft drink companies in Iran, closed down and laid off all its workers. This factory belongs to Qom Islamic Propaganda Bureau, one of the bodies responsible for export of terrorism.
In Ahwaz, about 150 workers at Ahwaz Pipe Mills were dismissed after their return from New Year’s holidays without getting their end of the year bonuses. They have not been paid their salaries in the past 15 months. They have staged protests in front of the governors office on a number of occasions in recent weeks but the regime’s authorities refuse to respond to their enquiries.
In Tabriz, 49 workers in Tavakoli Match Company have been dismissed. Out of 400 workers in this company only 130 are working.
In Qazvin, most of factories in the industrial township are closed. Workers in Alborz China factory have not been paid in the past seven months and the authorities refuse to respond to their enquiries.
In Rasht, some 100 workers have been laid off in Iran Barak Company. Parnian Morgh Company has sacked 15 workers following their complaints against work-place conditions and non-payment of their salaries and bonuses. The workers are forced to work 14 hours a day without receiving any overtime payment. The management of the company refuses to insure the workers after a year of employment in the factory.
In Kerman, 100 workers in the city’s Bafteh-ha Textile Company have lost their jobs in recent days.
On the brink of the International Workers' Day, the Iranian Resistance calls on the International Labor Organization (ILO) and all trade unions and organizations defending the rights of workers across the world to defend the rights of the Iranian workers and condemn the clerical regime’s anti-labor and suppressive policies.
The regime has turned the life impossible for workers by plundering the nation’s wealth and wasting them on nuclear weapons program and export of terrorism and filling bank accounts of the ruling clerics as well as the members of the Revolutionary Guards. The only way out for the oppressed Iranian workers and toilers from the current miserable situation and extreme poverty is to overthrow the inhumane and anti-Iranian regime and establish a democratic and popular rule in Iran.